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VC769   Thomas Mottershead

Name   Thomas Mottershead   No.   1396   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   769   Awards   VC   DCM

Regiment   Royal Flying Corps, No. 20 Squadron

Later   

Now   Royal Air Force

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   6 Vine Street, Widnes, Cheshire, England

Place Of Death   Bailleul Casualty Clearing Station, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Bailleul Communal Cemetery & Extension, Bailleul, 8 miles east of Hazebrouck, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   13 January 1917

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot 3, Row A, Grave 126

Gazetted   12 February 1917

VC Presented   2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England to his widow, Lilian

Memorials

P  Headstone, Bailleul Communal Cemetery & Extension, Bailleul, 8 miles east of Hazebrouck, Pas de Calais, France

P  Named on War Memorial, Victoria Park, Widnes, Cheshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Victoria Park, Widnes, Cheshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Royal British Legion, Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial,  St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London

P  Mottershead Road, Widnes, Cheshire

P  Mottershead Drive, Innsworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Named On War Memorial, St Paul's Church, Victoria Square, Widnes, Cheshire

By The Way…

He was the only Non Commissioned Officer of the Royal Flying Corps to win a VC

VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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BORN   17 January 1892

DIED   12 January 1917   AGE   24

VC Won  7 January 1917   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Near Ploegsteert, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917